Actually, if you read the label on the Uncle Ben's box ... it's "Long Grain and Wild Rice" with herbs. I have a couple of dishes I make using it because straight wild rice would be too heavy.

Actually, LEFSElover - they are not worms - they are maggots. Just look at the size! Worms would be bigger.

All silliness aside - when you add uncooked rice to a pot with hot oil - the moisture in the "rice" will rapidly expand and "pop" (the same thing that happens in pop-corn). This is how I start off my pilafs ... I saute onion and maybe some garlic, then when I add the rice I stir it around to make sure it is coated with fat and when the first few grains start to pop - that's when I add my stock.

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I had a similar thing happen to me many years ago. My mom always made the best Great Northern Beans, so I thought I would make some. The problem was I was working and didn't have the time in one night to cook them properly, so I cooked them most of the way one night and refrigerated them. The next night I started to finish them for dinner only to see little pink worm looking things on top. I thought they were bad so I tossed them. When I told my mom, she said it was the eyes of the beans that separate and rise to the top. I suppose because they were refrigerated, it was more evident than a complete cooking cycle would have been.

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